Do you take this shot?

[Cato]

The deer is directly under your stand. Do you shoot it straight down? Are you worried at all about a one lung hit? What has your recovery experience been?

[James Wrenn]

A lot would depend on where I am hunting.If I was hunting an area I knew very well I could find the deer even if I did not get an exit wound.Some places that I do know well I would not consider the shot becauseI would know recovery would be next to impossible, :) In unknow territory I would not unless I was hunting with someone else that I was sure knew the area good.I have made and recovered deer with this shot but I have lost them too before I realized knowing where you are at is pretty important. :)

Btw.. I can not remember the first deer I killed with a bow.I can remember like it was yesterday the first deer I did not recover.It was a between the feet shot like you described above.

[Ray Cover]

I think I would wait. I'm kinda clumsy and would probably fall out of the tree. I think I would wait hoping it moved out sooner or later for a decent shot.

If it is under you it apperently has no clue your there and is just al likely to end up giving you a good as not as long as it doesn't get spooked.

I'm not near the hunter some of you guys are but for me that would be my move.

Ray

[Bill Carlsen]

...like that but have also lost some because I shot them in an area where the swamp they run into in a hell hole. Actually I only lost 2 like that but I hesitate to take that shot any more. I would rather wait for a better shot than to chance wounding and not finding. :2cents:

[Cato]

I've never taken this shot, but some of my friends have gotten by with it. I tend to wait it out, and on occassion, it has probably cost me a kill. I'm just curious what others do/have done.

[Pinelander]

I lost one to a shot like that 2 years ago. I found the deer, but it was too late... the coyotes beat me to it. I have successfully recovered one other like that as well. I generally refrain from those shots if at all possible. All depends on the situation, the area, and just how much you really want to kill that deer. I don't take those shots any more. Deer can cover a lot ground when one-lunged.

[Esquire]

I took the shot once. I had a 70lb bear recurve with T100 broadheads and some aluminum shaft from easton, maybe a 2413. It was not straight down, it was 10 yards as the crow flies, but steeply downhill. I shot, then when the deer went down shot immediately again for insurance. The first shot nearly severed the spine. The 2d arrow slipped past the first and out the chest. The deer lived less than 10 seconds, I'd guess. The 2d arrow passed between the lungs and hit the heart. Since that does not seem very likely, in retrospect, I must have hit a lung. It was many moons ago, and I was not too solid on deer anatomy at the time. I'm sure about the heart and spine. I'm weak in the memory on the lungs!

[Boho]

I would if I had my needle or a pod on the arrow. But the rest of these guys don't have that option so I would pass.

[Esquire]

Boho,

I remember eating lunch and arguing effective ranges with the patriarch of that tickling and noodling family that invented and marketed those pods in 1992. It was a little store on the Ross Barnett Resevoir. I'd forgotten about those things.

But what's the needle?

Mike

[Cueball]

Mike, I live right down the road from that store. I stop in there quite often. They are still there and will still talk to you about the benefits of the Pod. My son plays most of his ball right across the street from the store.

.............................................Roby. .............

[Esquire]

Hey Roby,

Those guys wrastle up some big cats, don't they?!

Man, I wish I'd known you back then. I was a neophite deer hunter wandering the swamps of Mississippi by myself, without a clue in the world. Burning the candle at both ends just to hunt, while I worked 2 jobs. (never got a deer down there)...

Heck if I'd met some guys like you and Cato back then I'd probably still live in Mississippi! :)

Mike

[Cato]

It's not too late Mike. We'll take you back. But don't forget the mosquitoes are as big as birds, and it's 90 degress during the rut.

[Esquire]

:) I'll keep it in mind! I remember stopping on the Dam one morning to look at a huge snake. I had just finished hunting and it was still early. (I would drive an hour each way to hunt 45 minutes or an hour before work) I was driving a loaner from Patty Peck - a used Riviera, late 80's vintage.

I never saw the cop until he got out of his cruiser. Here I was, covered in swamp mud and cammies, holding a snake and parked in the middle of the dam. He investigated me pretty thoroughly before letting me move on!

Mike

[Cueball]

MS hunting is very fun. We don't grow the biggest deer nor do we have the dumb deer. But getting in the woods after a long brutal hot summer is just down right awesome. Come on back if you ever want to try again.

.................................................. .....Roby......................................... ...............